Journal box liner



March 17, 1942. 2,276,379

J. H. ENGLEMAN JOURNAL Box LINER Filed Dec. 2.6, 1940 l vm'entor Joh n f7. EngZe ma n,

Patented Mar. 17, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,276,379 JoUnNAL Box rissa John H. Engleman, Waterloo, Iowa Application December 26, 1940, Serial No. 371,709

Z Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in journal boxes and their packings, particularly to those employed in railroad service and for freight or other cars, and the object of my improvement is to provide a liner device for a journal box having auxiliary means thereon and within the box and partially riding upon the journal while having rows of teeth therealong to penetrate the content of waste below to prevent displacements in service.

This object I have accomplished in actual practice and use in journal boxes of varied types successfully. The device is of simple and inexpensive construction, while preserving the waste evenly disseminated throughout the lower part of the journal box, and the device is so mounted as to be easily and quickly removable-when desired. Y

My invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, nor to the several detailsv thereof, as the same may be modifi-ed or rearranged in various particulars without departing from the spirit and scope ,of my invention, one practical embodiment of which has been herein illustrated and described without attempting to show all the various forms and modications in which my invention might be embodied.

My invention is illustrated in the accompany-A ing drawing, in which Fig. 1 is a forward end elevation thereof before insertion into a journal box of a freight car or other vehicle for which it may be appropriated in use. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the rear end of the device. Fig. 3 is a top plan thereof. Fig. 4 is a side elevation. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section oia journal box including the new feature of my invention. Fig. 6 is a `cross section of Fig. 5, with the journal Aprotruding and broken away. Fig. '7 is a fragmental magnied representation of a row of depending obliquely offset teeth as used along the edges of the llower walls of the invention. Fig. 8 is a bottom plan of my device. All of said figures are in like scale, except the diminished iigure shown in said Fig. 4, and a fragmental part of the wall detents shown in Fig 7.

Reference is had to said Figs. 5 and 6, which illustrate the well-known construction of a car journal box and contents as found in railway 'or other cars. This box has the usual lid I2 pivoted at `6c to a lug 6b and controlled by a connected spring arm I3 while pivotally hung to close the outer open end of the box. The rear end of the box is open at I to seat the journal I4 removably as shown in said Figures and 6.

The numeral I5 pictures a content of waste or the like beneath the end part Ida of the journal. The lower forward part of the box at E is curved upwardly in contact with the usually depending spring controlled lid I2. The rear wall 'I is oiset from an inner circular rib, and the rear part of the box has a vertical space at 8, while the part 1 is circularly apertured at I0 in alinement centrally with the circular rib. A circular packing member 9 ist removably fitted in the interspace 8. One or more members I6, I'I and I8 as shown in Fig. 6 are shaped to fit in superposition upon f the journal part Ma, to extend downwardly a short distance about the journal.

The device I has a flat horizontal top plate 2 of T-shape with the part 2a diminished. The widerlpart 2 has at opposite ends the vertically depending side parts 3a3c which are bent obliquely downwardly inwardly at 4 and 4a. The

side walls 5 and 5a are spot-welded or otherwise secured together on the depending parts 3a and 3c, to project downwardly therefrom.

The U-shaped plate has obliquely transverse teeth depending downwardly along its lower edge, as shown in Figs. 7 and* 8, but the teeth may be differently shaped and arranged as desired.v

Referring to the Figs. 5 and 6, my said lining device is shown mounted `within the journal box -Ga with the toothed .depending parts of the U-shaped plate penetrating the waste content I5 to prevent displacement of the waste in any direction. The plate 2a--2 is supported removably upon the uppermost member I6. The inwardly oblique offset parts 4 and 4a are terminally set closely to the journal Ida a short distance above the axis thereof. j

vIt will be seen, that when the lid I2 isl swungr upwardly, the liner may easily be removed from the journal box.

I :claim: y

l. A liner for a journal box, consisting of a pair of channeled members connected xedly to#- gether angularly at their free end parts, one

member being horizontal, the other Vertical with a projection of its transverse part directed away from the open end parts of the horizontal member, and with the lower end parts of the second member bent inwardly and downwardly inclin! edly, and spaced apart.

2. A liner for a journal box, 4consisting of a pair of channeled members connected xedly together angularly at their free end par-ts, one member being horizontal with its lower edge having obliquely transverse detents thereon, the other vertical with a projection of its transverse part directed away from the open end parts of the horizontal member, and with the lower end parts of the second member bent inwardly and 4downwardly inclinedly, and spaced apart.

JOHN H. ENGLEMAN. 

